July of 2012

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Training: Reporting disaster

SAARC

Jul 18, 2012 1 mins read 276 views
Access: Private vehicles avoid Indian roads

Monsoon

Jul 18, 2012 1 mins read 278 views
TCBS is delinked and now need funds!

Letter to the editor

Jul 18, 2012 2 mins read 245 views
Hitching a ride (on the gravy train)

Editorial

Jul 18, 2012 2 mins read 255 views
Landslide Incidence: Spike in roadblocks due to severity of rainfall

Landslide

Jul 18, 2012 1 mins read 298 views
Vehicle veers off road, kills one

Accident

Jul 18, 2012 1 mins read 254 views
Tourism Royalty: Unanimous denial to proposed hike

Tourism

Jul 18, 2012 3 mins read 271 views
Dissolution Date: April's the month?

Parliament

Jul 18, 2012 3 mins read 239 views
Chamkhar, Bumthang: Two sisters arrested for assault and battery

Crime

Jul 17, 2012 1 mins read 345 views
BDBL Yadi Branch: 7 gewogs, over 3,500 households to benefit

Bhutan Development Bank (BDB)

Jul 17, 2012 2 mins read 327 views
Police pin TINs on errant drivers

RBP

Jul 17, 2012 2 mins read 285 views
Construction works at night

Letter to the editor

Jul 17, 2012 1 mins read 238 views
Turning delinquency to crime

Editorial

Jul 17, 2012 2 mins read 260 views
Nine and half years for involuntary manslaughter

Crime

Jul 17, 2012 1 mins read 273 views
One dies in accident

Accident

Jul 17, 2012 1 mins read 0 views
Vehicle numbers halved on pedestrians' day

Pedestrians' day

Jul 17, 2012 2 mins read 248 views
Rupee Crisis: Bankers point finger of blame back at govt.

Rupee crunch

Jul 17, 2012 2 mins read 271 views
Green Tax: To be collected in retrospect

Green Tax

Jul 17, 2012 3 mins read 268 views
Yangphel archery tournament goes nationwide with 260 teams

Archery

Jul 16, 2012 2 mins read 248 views
Fake Visa Case: Exonerated travel company back in business

Crime

Jul 16, 2012 1 mins read 223 views
Gelephu continues to be plagued by floods

Flood

Jul 16, 2012 1 mins read 291 views
Each dzongkhag gets two fire engines

Fire Engines

Jul 16, 2012 1 mins read 249 views
Keep the foundations

Letter to the editor

Jul 16, 2012 1 mins read 251 views
Taking democracy beyond mere elections

Editorial

Jul 16, 2012 1 mins read 261 views
Tirkhola, Doban: Search for missing student still on

Missing

Jul 16, 2012 1 mins read 262 views
21 new HIV positives in last seven months

HIV

Jul 16, 2012 2 mins read 274 views
Elections 2013: Status Report: Extant parties meet ECB deadline

Election

Jul 16, 2012 2 mins read 238 views
Boxing

Boxing

Jul 15, 2012 1 mins read 348 views
Ninth national athletic meet: 12 records broken

Athletics

Jul 15, 2012 2 mins read 232 views
Police-Public Partnership Program: From youth, moving on to adults

Royal Bhutan Police

Jul 15, 2012 2 mins read 277 views
De-suung Training: Fourth batch of 133 measures up

De-suung Training

Jul 15, 2012 1 mins read 272 views
Profile : Sangay Tenzin: The boy, who lost his voice but not his verve

Personalities

Jul 15, 2012 2 mins read 265 views
What customer care?

Letter to the editor

Jul 15, 2012 1 mins read 276 views
Shelling out for the secretariat

Editorial

Jul 15, 2012 2 mins read 274 views
RIM Convocation: 172 graduate with diplomas

RIM

Jul 15, 2012 1 mins read 279 views
Media Nomads: In the process, to understand the process

Training

Jul 15, 2012 2 mins read 276 views
Weekend well-spent

Waste

Jul 15, 2012 0 mins read 229 views
Farm roads: National Inventory: Only five percent found unpliable

Farm roads

Jul 15, 2012 4 mins read 244 views
Trance runners - Riding the wind

Perspective

Jul 13, 2012 3 mins read 300 views
Wangduephodrang Dzong: His Majesty makes offering on behalf of the people

Wangduephodrang Dzong Fire

Jul 13, 2012 2 mins read 242 views
Windstorm : Farmers await compensation

Windstorm

Jul 13, 2012 2 mins read 262 views
Network choked by Kathri crowd

Telecom

Jul 13, 2012 2 mins read 220 views
Rupee shortages and food prices

Perspective

Jul 13, 2012 12 mins read 231 views
Putting a cap on unlimited access

Telecom

Jul 13, 2012 3 mins read 269 views
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Tsimalakha Hospital to get doctor by January

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MPs push for long-term support to strengthen highland communities

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Finance ministry reassesses industry protection to curb construction costs

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ICIMOD honours three champions of cryosphere and rangeland reform

Kathmandu, Nepal — The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has honoured three individuals...

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NC ratifies BIMSTEC Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters

The National Council (NC) ratified the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (B...

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Sir, your advice to the younger generation?

Choose your environment Your environment is the invisible hand that constantly shapes the way you think, feel, and act. Your family, friends, school, city, country, social media accounts, television and news channels, habits, and heroes are all shaping you into replicas of the admired, the powerful, and the majority around you.

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Impact Finance Forum: A promising start

The recently concluded SDG Impact Finance Forum showed the potential for global investments in the country.

Dec 15, 2025 2 mins read 327 views
Restore or lose it altogether

The country’s plan to restore 50,000 hectares of degraded forests, farmlands, and urban lands is not simply an environmental initiative. It is a national ultimatum. We are standing at a point where the land...

Dec 13, 2025 2 mins read 681 views
Zero tolerance for online crimes

This week, Australia enforced the ban on social media access for children under 16. This is unprecedented and bold. While some critics have labelled the ban harsh and even draconian, this new law is anchored in the p...

Dec 12, 2025 2 mins read 819 views
Will our education transformation be equitable?

The government’s allocation of Nu 30 billion for education transformation in the 13th Plan, second only to the economic...

Dec 11, 2025 2 mins read 565 views
The never-ending tourism debate

The discussion on tourism policy is like Atsara Phentho’s chham. In other words, a lot of motion without progress. On Monday, members of Parliament demanded accountability for the reforms they recommended after re...

Dec 10, 2025 2 mins read 1,088 views
Ready to take off from GMC

The launch of the Gelephu–Kolkata international air route marks far more than the addition of a new flight on the country’s aviation map. It is a statement of intent – a signal of where we are heade...

Dec 09, 2025 2 mins read 445 views
Why we must invest in Research & Development

Bhutan is not short of ideas, intellect or institutions. What it lacks is a strong, working bridge between research, pol...

Dec 08, 2025 2 mins read 786 views
To eat meat or not!

In passing the Livestock Bill of Bhutan,  2025, National Assembly members engaged in a good debate, a meaty one, even if it missed the core issue. The Bill was not about advocat...

Dec 06, 2025 2 mins read 1,139 views
Disaster preparedness is our best defence

The National Council this week questioned the government on the country’s disaster preparedness. This is a pertinent issue, especially when extreme weather events are frequent and more intense. Preparedness is therefore the most effective stra...

Dec 05, 2025 2 mins read 564 views
Equity in education merits discourse

During a recent Question Hour session in the National Assembly, Members of Parliament (MP) called for an open debate on education quality and budget allocation. And rightly so. Education is the foundation upon which every other...

Dec 04, 2025 2 mins read 803 views
Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...

Oct 16, 2025 2 mins read 2,096 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...

Sep 22, 2025 4 mins read 3,030 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...

Aug 18, 2025 2 mins read 4,272 views
Deeper than HIV/AIDS

Far from the bustling capital, the community of Genekha observed an important global day. December 1 was World AIDS Day....

Dec 03, 2025 2 mins read 979 views
Solving youth unemployment before it’s too late

Youth unemployment has become one of Bhutan’s most persistent national challenges. And it endures despite successive gov...

Dec 02, 2025 2 mins read 829 views
Addressing teacher shortage and quality

In some schools, especially in urban centres, there are more teachers than timetables demand. In others, often remote sc...

Dec 01, 2025 2 mins read 1,890 views
When rising corruption reports tell a deeper story

The growing number of corruption reports in the past year forces the nation to confront a hard truth: something in our s...

Nov 29, 2025 2 mins read 1,390 views
Regulatory reforms must be matched with a mindset shift

The government’s commitment to address regulatory barriers that have choked business growth deserves recognition and sup...

Nov 28, 2025 2 mins read 802 views

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